Straight to the recipe An odd but tasty dish Recently I published an article in the periodical De Boekenwereld (The Book World)…
Straight to the recipe Double take The Netherlands celebrated the bicentennial of their existence as a kingdom in 2013. But at the…
Very, very healthy! In Asterix in Britain, the heroes Asterix and Obelix' first meal on British soil is eaten in a pub…
An exquisite drink from the seventeenth century Straight to the recipe During the seventeenth century a meal was often concluded by drinking…
Straight to the recipe A fourteenth-century dish from France When I give a talk on medieval cuisine I always serve…
Recipes from the seventeenth century During Lent, between carnival and Easter, the catholic church (and after the Reformation several protestant…
This the third recipe for Good Friday. The other recipes are Pomegranate Salad and Jacobin Sops. If one grows spinach…
In the introduction to the recipe for Pomegranate Salad I mentioned the only day that the (catholic) French alle ate…
Straight to the recipe Jean-Louis Flandrin, who died in 2001, wrote in his posthumously published book L'Ordre des mets that the reformation…
Straight to the recipe Pullis iuvenis in tempore estivali This summer I was experimenting with roasting whole chickens on the…